Thread: GPS PDA Smartphone

Heya Tusker, how's the Jasjam as a all in one? I'm tossing up between that and the Palm Treo 750 atm

I'm very happy with it, works well with the System 8 car kit.

Theres just been an upgrade for it, I can get 15 mins of Foxtel now. Wow.

The remote syncing is the most important thing for me with travelling in the country, & works well. There's plenty of pda sites to surf when I'm bored, like the Sydney Morning Herald or the BBC. Accessing AULRO on it is a bit fiddly

OziExplorer Ce is a bit limited viz how many maps you can get on a 2 gig card. Not enough.

Font size is a bit small, I guess that's the same with them all. Need glasses most of the time. Didn't have this problem with the Symbian OS on the last phone though. I'm experiement with themes to see which has the best contrast. Current one is an Aston Martin theme, very clean, & easy to see.

Got some SE stereo bluetooth earbuds for it as well.

Its a good phone.

Regards
Max P

Hi Tusker,
I was looking at that one does it have an external arial connection from the car kit?

I need a big **** 71/2DB arial for the country.
My current CDMA is using that ariel and it makes a huge difference to reception so I would like to do the same again when I go Next G?

Cheers

got a JasJam on friday and still playing... seems an okay phone but i think my bluetooth headset is a dud.

Now just need to find where to grab the gps software from.

I got the mio digiwalker a701, its brilliant

it came with a 1gig mem card that has the inbuilt maps on it and enough room for about half of australia in oziexplorer ce's map format in 1:250,000.

its software is faster to fiqure out whats what than my old mio 168 but the whole thing is about 10 seconds slower on inital boot (shouldnt need to do that often) and about 4 seconds slower to get the nav spoftware (not ozi) loaded.

But as for gps connection and location find, 3 minutes for the first lock.

On a reset it took 10 minutes but I was inside a steel parts cage inside a cgi shed. (hiding from the boss while I played with the new gps)

the phone works well and the pda has all my old 168 had and some more, the only thing missing is the voice record button that was so helpful on the 168..

the kit it comes with is comprehensive including the cds, earphones, usb cable 240v charger and car charger, protective pouch and windshiled mount...

Im impressed so far... and its not much bigger than my kyocrea phone thats now looking like its future is in jeopardy.


all i need is a sim card for gsm..

Originally Posted by Outlaw

Now just need to find where to grab the gps software from.

Hmm, now I might have seen an Australian maps version of TomTom Navigator 6 for Pocket PC on a torrent site somewhere (could be http://www.mininova.org/). But downloading that would be illegal.

Well, after a long search, I have chosen this -

The Dopod D810. This is a reasonably fast and compact PDA phone running Windows Mobile 5.0. Dopod don't advertise it as having GPS but after reading a few reviews (notably cnet.asia) I discovered that the manufacturer has just "disabled" the GPS feature due to a clash with the GSM reception. This has now been fixed with a downloadable ROM update from HTC (the OEM) so IT IS A GPS DEVICE.

In addition to it having all the features, it is a 3.5G phone (whatever that is - I only thought there was 3G) AND it is small and very tidy looking. Best of all, as far as I'm concerned, it has a side jog-wheel which enables scrolling and clicking one handed - a feature I have on my current phone but have been unable to find on any others.

I have ordered it and will give another update when it arrives (if it ever does - I'm sure the Ebay shop guy is legit. but I shouldn't get over excited just in case...)

Well the phone arrived so fast it made my head spin. It is every bit as good as I had hoped. I'm now writing this post on the device using wi fi and IE on a postage stamp size screen but its still pretty good.By far the best thing is that after some hunting I found the GPS ROM update and now have TomTom 6 installed and running fine.So all is good - I'm just getting RSI from writing this.